But once there are a few more users, it won’t be so chatty. Understanding and managing bootstrap mode – it’s actually set up to work out of the box by sending a zillion emails to the new people (who presumably are more patient like your moderator) and it’ll automatically tone it down if you don’t figure out how to change the setting yourself.
Oh, that’s a relief! Someone clever, and perhaps someone clever with a few tools and the help of https://ask.discourse.com/ might be able to coerce that into the Docs plugin.
Agreed, and they’ve mostly done a good job with that, I think. And make sure you learn how to use the search on settings–you almost never want to look at a list of them. Just blindly type stuff in the search box–it searches the names, descriptions, and values of all of those settings. It’s amazing.
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Yeah, and I don’t mean to imply that your frustrations aren’t real or valid, just that I’m not clear what actionable steps are to solve any of those issues.